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    Here on earth : a natural history of the planet / Tim Flannery.

    By: Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010Description: xviii, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 21 cmISBN: 9780802145864; 0802145868Subject(s): Historical geology | Life -- Origin | Evolution (Biology) | Biosphere | Earth (Planet) -- History | Earth (Planet) -- OriginDDC classification: 551 LOC classification: QE501 | F53 2010
    Contents:
    section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at earth ; The commonwealth of virtue -- section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia -- section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism -- section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages -- section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force -- section 6: An intelligent earth? What lies on the other side?
    Summary: An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
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    "First published in 2010 in Australia by the Text Publishing Company, Melbourne"--T.p. verso.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.

    section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at earth ; The commonwealth of virtue -- section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia -- section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism -- section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages -- section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force -- section 6: An intelligent earth? What lies on the other side?

    An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.

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